Murder on a side street
Author: Salil Desai
Publisher: Unicorn Books
ISBN10: 81-7806-277-1
ISBN: 978-81-7806-277-8
This is the second book by Salil Desai after 'The Body In The Back Seat'. Murder on a side street is a very simple and straight forward thriller novel mainly based on the life of some freshly passed college students who have just started their job life.
Three couples-six friends Sandeep, Divya, Kapil, Sharmeen, Jerry and Aarushi are very much irritated with there present job life. Among them Sandeep has the most irritating boss, Wadhwa, who constantly abuses him and threatens to spoil his career. Suddenly Sandeep finds himself in a situation where he becomes the prime suspect of his boss Wardwa's murder. Then the rest of his friends team-up to help him to prove his innocence. As the story progress and the five friends continue their investigation one after another many suspects come up; Wadhwa's wife and son as he was a wife-beater, one of his former female colleague who was sexually abused by him many times before and some partners from his fake SIM card Id business. The story goes on and the five friends continue their struggle to find proper proof against the other suspects. Then a auto driver comes into the scenario who also robes Wardwa's house later and also becomes a suspect of the murder. The investigation office of the murder case PSI Marne also helps and supports the five friends to dig-up the truth. Later somehow one of the friends finds a strong motive against one of the suspects and PSI Marne forces him to confess. Then Sandeep comes out the custody much to the joy of his friends and family. At the end six friends decide to quit their current job and start a detective agency named Masters of Baffling Assignments(MBA) Detectives.
Though the build up to the climax is good but the climax itself fails to thrill the readers much. At the end everything happens very suddenly. The characters are also not very properly described, they just suddenly appear and play their role.
There are many positives also and the biggest of them is proper editing of the situations and incidents. All the situations are very to the point. There is not much excessive characters also. The story also moves on fast enough. As per my verdict its a good one time read for the first-time thriller readers.
Ratings: 2.5/5..
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